Shanna Kennedy-Quigley

Shanna Kennedy-Quigley holds a B.A. in Classical Civilizations from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.A. in Art History from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her primary research interests are Hellenistic art and architecture, the propagandistic uses of art in Antiquity, and multiculturalism and hybridity in the Graeco-Roman Era. Her dissertation concerns the Hellenistic sculptural and architectural components introduced to the Memphite Sarapieion, the temple precinct on the Egyptian royal necropolis of Saqqara which was dedicated to the mortuary cult of the deceased Apis bull, during the Ptolemaic period.

Courses Offered:
CLCV 301 Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece
CLCV 306 Art and Architecture of Ancient Rome 
CLCV 498 Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt


    Chiara Sulprizio


Chiara Sulprizio received her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Southern California in 2007. Her research focuses on issues of sexuality and gender as they manifest themselves throughout the ancient world, particularly in Greek and Roman comedy. She is also interested in ancient geography and the use of space in Greece and Rome. Her recent work has touched upon both of these areas of interest: she has given papers on women's roles in the early plays of Aristophanes and on geopolitics in Herodotus' 'Histories'. She also has an article forthcoming in a collection entitled 'Classics and Comics', which discusses the role of sex and love in Eric Shanower's graphic novel about the Trojan war, 'Age of Bronze'. Finally, Chiara has taught (and enjoyed!) a wide range of courses in her time at USC and at Hamilton College that reflect her interests, including Women in Antiquity, Roman Civilization, Roman Satire and Pagans and Christians.

Course Offered:
LATN 312 Virgil

Elizabeth A. Waraksa

Elizabeth A. Waraksa received her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the Johns Hopkins University. She currently works as a librarian at the Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was previously a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral fellow. She has excavated at the Precinct of the Goddess Mut at Karnak in Luxor, Egypt with the Johns Hopkins University, and at Poggio delle Civitelle in San Venanzo, Italy, with Florida State University. Her publications include the entry on female figurines of the pharaonic period in the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, and a revised version of her dissertation, Female Figurines from the Mut Precinct: Context and Ritual Function, is forthcoming in the Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis series.

Course Offered:
ARCH 404 Egyptology